[pulseaudio-discuss] Choose remote default sink fromcommandline?

[Dave]

At 03:55 AM 11/15/2010, you wrote:
>'Twas brillig, and Dave at 15/11/10 01:25 did gyre and gimble:
> > At 11:11 AM 11/14/2010, you wrote:
> >> 'Twas brillig, and Dave Markus at 13/11/10 17:54 did gyre and gimble:
> >> > FWIW - the tunnel sink I created, sink-DGTM, does not show up in
> >> > pavucontrol or padevchooser. It only shows up when I do '$ pacmd list'.
> >>
> >> Then you probably have the wrong filter chosen on the "Output Devices"
> >> tab in pavucontrol. Make sure you pick "All Output Devices" and not
> >> "Hardware Devices"...
> >>
> >> Col
> >
> > I tried "All Output Devices" and no luck. But I think the tunnel module
> > may be crashing when I open pavucontrol. I did not check to see exactly
> > what does and does not crash the tunnel. Since this is an old version of
> > pulse, and it works ok in the newer versions, I did not think it was
> > worth the time trying to pinpoint the problem.
> >
> > Here is what I finally did to get it to work on my ubuntu 9.04 system:
> >
> > Edit ~/.profile
> >
> > And add:
> >
> > export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:ubuntu-DGTM.gateway.2wire.net:4713
> >
> > Reboot and the remote server is now the default sink.
>
>Technically the remote server is not the default sink, it's the default
>server. From there it's default sink will likely be used... but that's
>just me nit-picking! ...


No, it is good to know these things.
I am still learning my way around pulse.

Dave